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57% -- percentage of marketers saying link building is critical to seo success for marketers (2025)
Over 57% of marketers report that link building plays a critical role in their SEO success.
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57%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2025
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B
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50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
60
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Ahrefs
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Tier C
https://developer.wikimint.com/2025/05/blog-post.html ↗
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13 Free Bookmarking Sites to Boost SEO & Website Traffic
13 Free Bookmarking Sites to Boost SEO & Website Traffic
Top Free Bookmarking Sites to Boost SEO and Traffic
When I first started my blogging journey, I thought writing valuable content alone was enough to rank on Google. I couldn’t have been more wrong.
No matter how good your content is, without s…
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marketers: 57% percentage of marketers saying link building is critical to seo success. Source: Ahrefs (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/marketers-link-building-critical-seo-2025
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